based on Financial Times report
Union leaders are to make another move in their campaign to force independent airline operators to drop their separate negotiating machinery from the State lines ~ or be grounded, Three te#dt cases are to be placed before the Air Transport Licensing Board, which will then have to decide whether the differences in pay and conditions between State and indpendent employees disqualifies private lines from holding licences. Leading the attack gp the airlines is ASSET, It claims that the Civil Aviation Act specifies’ pay and conditions for similar. work should be the same in private lines as in the BEA and BOAC, The unidéh“intends to: cite pensions as a field in which employees in the independent lines are at a disadvantage.